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Category Archives: Family Vision, Mission, Core Values
Room Improvements Make Great Dad and Daughter Memories
Dads and sons have many natural opportunities through sports, outdoors, and hobbies to find opportunities to spend time together. It is often more difficult to find opportunities for Dads to spend time sharing an activity with their daughters. Let me … Continue reading
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How To Destroy a Nation
In the recent weeks Americans continue to experience the result of unchecked greed, poor policy, and inability to manage our finances as a nation. This combined with a moral decline and diverging social culture have challenged America’s leadership position. Continue reading
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You Are Building Your Legacy Everyday
There are many legacies that you can leave, but the most powerful and influential will be the accumulated experiences you share together and memories of how you lived your life. Continue reading
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The 20 Rules Of This House
I enjoy reading other business and family values, rules, or boundaries that are used to lead and provide boundaries for business or family. We have our family Core Values posted on the refrigerator for reference when making choices or using for instruction. These are great tools to use and leaves no question as to how we are supposed to operate. Continue reading
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When Do You Push Your Kids in Sports, Music, Activities and How Do You Build In The Right Stuff?
What do you do when your child decides to quit a sport, music or activite that they have invested so many hours and years developing. How do you use these experiences to build in the right stuff into you kids. Every child is a unique individual that requires an individual plan to develop larger character traits that come from parents that earn the privilege to speak in the right stuff by spending meaningful time with our children. Continue reading
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Always Speak With Grace
Speaking with grace allows others to operate in truth free from defensive positions that allows us to know how we are to respond to each and every person or circumstance. Continue reading
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Teaching About the Birds and the Bees
Practical tips for Christian parents in teaching their children about sex. Start early, build a biblical foundation, create a comfortable atmosphere to initiate conversation, recognize your body as a temple of the living God are simple strategies to teach and develop a sexual worldview with your kids. Continue reading
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“If the only tool in your toolbox is a hammer, then all your problems are going to look like nails.”
Understanding and applying to personal and professional leadership the personality profiles developed by John Geier and taught as DISC to effectively communicate and lead others. Continue reading
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Four Stages in Raising Kids to Be Independent Adults
Parenting guidelines for instructing and teaching kids to grow up to make good choices and become independent adults. Continue reading
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